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The doctors at the hospital «barzilay» reported in the Ministry of health and the police about the death of eight-month-old baby brought to the emergency Department in critical condition from Kiryat gat.

It is known that before hospitalization the child was his nanny. The woman claims that he did not know what happened to the child. According to her, when she approached the crib, the baby was not breathing, and she called him an ambulance.

Police are investigating the circumstances of the death of the child, at the moment the main version is sudden infant death syndrome.

According to the Ministry of health, for every thousand births in Israel accounts for 0.25% of cases of sudden infant death. The health Ministry stressed that in Europe the average is about 0.3%.